Clinical Associate Professor, Director Outpatient TBI Services
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation
Dr. Kirk Lercher, MD, MBS is a Clinial Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Rutgers University - New Jersey Medical Scholl and the director of outpatient traumatic brain injury services for Kessler Institute and the Medical Director for the Northern New Jersey TBI Model System for Kessler Foundaion. Prior to joining Kessler Institute in 2021, Dr. Lercher served as medical director of brain injury rehabilitation and the Brain Injury Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance in New York. He additionally was the director of the brain injury medicine fellowship program.
Dr. Lercher has published numerous articles, contributed several textbook chapters and presented nationally on a range of brain injury, stroke and neurorehabilitation topics. He volunteers as an ad hoc reviewer for the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and volunteers with the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Regionally Dr. Lercher serves on the education committee for the Brain Injury Association of New York State and Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey.
Dr. Lercher is a graduate of the University of California San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in biology, Dr. Lercher earned both a master’s degree in biomedical sciences and medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (formerly the University of Medicine and Dentistry – New Jersey Medical School). He completed his residency training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Kessler Institute in West Orange and a fellowship in traumatic brain injury at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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